“Lovely Creature” is the name of a track on Cave & the Bad Seeds’ 1996 album Murder Ballads. Cave was recently awarded the Badge of Honor for Service to Australia. In January, it was announced that he and Warren Ellis arere scoring a new Jeremy Renner movie, Wind Runner.

In 2016, Cave & the Bad Seeds released their excellent LP Skeleton Tree. Pitchfork named the record its No. 15 of 2016. Find the full list here.

Nick Cave:

There are some people out there who just don’t know where to start with The Bad Seeds. Others know the catalogue better than I do! This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making. That’s a lot of songs. The songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours. Others are just too big and have too much history to leave out. And there are those that didn’t make it, poor things. They are the ones you must discover by yourselves.